Preupgrade: Centralized Upgrade

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/07/2009 04:53 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> Without having to create a local mirror\repo.
> Is it possible for preupgrade to pool all Fedora PC's,
> on a lan.
> 
> Then download all needed for all boxes, (presto where possible).
> That way it could be more automated save multiple similar rpms,
> maybe I mean a server version?

A server version for preupgrade alone doesn't really make sense.
Preupgrade uses yum and there are some tricks for caching the packages
and metadata.

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching

If none of this solves your problem, please file a request for
enhancement in http://bugzilla.redhat.com against preupgrade.

Rahul